Unable to sustain the cost of colonizing these countries, and needing better quality labor to replenish what had been lost in the two world wars, Britain simply threw in the towel.

因为无力维持继续殖民统治的成本，再加上其国内也急需精良的劳动力，重建因两次世界大战带给英国的惨重的损失，英国只能对它的殖民统治说再见了。

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U.S. carmakers have lost money on small cars for years because of high labor rates and the cost to insure union retirees.

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The Chinese government recognizes that these jobs will eventually be lost to countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, or Indonesia which can be even more competitive on the cost of labor than China.

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